Harris ramps up efforts to win back Black male voters amid Trump gains Kamala Harris stepped up efforts to acquire support Black male voters who are drifting to Donald Trump, as the presidential rivals headed to dueling canvass events Monday in the crucial battleground of Pennsylvania.
The White House dash is on a knife-edge with impartial over three weeks to go, but the Democratic vice president's marginal advantage over the Republican former president in the polls has eroded in recent days.
In a rare move, Harris will also sit down for an interview with Trump-friendly Fox News on Wednesday -- to reach out to undecided right-leaning voters put off by the former president and counter Republican claims that she is avoiding media scrutiny.
Harris has recently lost ground in particular among Black men, a key demographic that aided Joe Biden defeat Trump in 2020, and on Monday she launched a modern economic plan to court them.
Her "opportunity agenda" is designed to give them "tools to attain financial freedom, lower costs to better provide for themselves and their families, and protect their rights," her canvass said.
"I intend to earn the vote of everyone, including Black men," Harris disclosed in an interview with The Shade Room, one of two Black media outlets she verbalised to.
Trump and Harris are also locked in a bitter, neck-and-neck battle for seven key US swing states, of which blue-collar Pennsylvania is the biggest prize.
Harris is adjudging a rally in Erie -- the northernmost county in the state and a bellwether in US presidential elections since 2008 -- while Trump asserted a town hall in Oaks on the outskirts of Philadelphia.
Harris is expected to ramp up her warnings about a second Trump term, seizing on his threats on Sunday that he could use the US military against "the enemy from within," including left-wingers.
Her promote will also launch a forward-looking television ad stressing his former White House aides advising of the peril the twice-impeached convicted felon would pose if he bounces to the Oval Office.
Trump meanwhile attacked Harris over her latest comments stating she would taboo fracking, a controversial method of unlocking underground gas and oil deposits that has brought economic benefits to Pennsylvania.
Asked about how he would tackle inflation, Trump announced "we're going to do a lot of things" before pivoting to border security and media criticism of him repeatedly bringing up fictional serial killer Hannibal Lecter at his advocate events.
He was asked what he would do to aid small businesses, and repeated his promise to slash energy bills in half within a year in office and denounced hydrogen-fueled cars, arguing that "once in a while, one will blow up."
Turning to his prospects in November's election, he added: "Our poll numbers have gone through the roof with Black and Hispanic, have gone through the roof. And I like that."
Monday marks the start of a week-long blitz of the three so-called Blue Wall battleground states of Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin this week by Harris and her racing mate Tim Walz.
They are known as the Blue Wall because they once reliably selected for Democrats, whose signature color is blue. But Trump broke through to gain the three states in 2016 before Biden took them advocate in 2020.
Democratic nerves are fraying as Harris's honeymoon after replacing Biden as the party's nominee in July wears off, with the polls stuck and uphold among Latino voters also ebbing.
Former president Barack Obama will advocate in Arizona and Nevada this week in a bid to shore up endorse from Latino voters. Obama caused a stir previous week when he chided Black men for being cautious to back Harris.
Another former president, Bill Clinton, meanwhile stumped for Harris in Georgia, another swing state where Biden prevailed by a tiny margin in 2020.
"Kamala Harris will be a fine president," Clinton informed supporters. "It is literally possible that the whole election could be decided here."
Harris, 59, meanwhile went on an obnoxious at the weekend, releasing her medical records and contending Trump -- who is at 78 the oldest presidential nominee in US history -- to do the same.
Trump responded on X on Monday, revealing it was "very important that Kamala Harris pass a test on Cognitive Stamina and Agility" calling her "slow and lethargic in answering even the easiest of questions.
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Published 10/17/2024